I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band everyone else wanted to play football.

How strange it is to be anything at all.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

I guess my path feels sort of different now... I don't know what's going to happen, but I certainly want to make music a bigger part of my life in the future than it has been for the last couple of years.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

For me, there's a lot of intrinsic mystery and power in folk music, but a lot of people don't perceive that music from around the world as something that fits into their lives or their psyche in any way. So I tried to present it in a different way to give it more of a chance to sink into people's heads.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.